How does the key sharing work?

Aleksandr

> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016, at 12:05 PM, Matthew Monaco <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> You're asking for a different project.
> 
> On 01/23/2016 07:03 AM, Dashamir Hoxha wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Why do you use asymmetric encryption (public/private keys).
>> I think that symmetric encrypion is easier, stronger, and simpler
>> (you don't need to generate and maintain a key, all you need is
>> a passphrase). It can be done with `gpg -c ...`.
>> 
> 
> I use my smartcard for the crypto, can't do that with only symmetric. I also
> share some keys with my wife, can't do that without sharing the password.
> 
>> Second issue: I think that it is not good that the structure of
>> directories, subdiretories and files is visible and unencrypted,
>> because it does give out some information about which sites
>> you are using. Is it not possible to create an archive (tar) file
>> of this directory and to encrypt this archive file? Then you can
>> decrypt it when you need to change or read something.
>> 
> 
> There's been a lot of discussion here about this. It would be nice, but it 
> would
> kill a really nice feature: the automatic git change history. You can put a
> wrapper around pass that stores everything in an encrypted block device, or 
> use
> encfs, ...
> 
>> Regards,
>> Dashamir
>> 
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